Technical Architect - Product Engineering

MindGen Solutions is a recruitment firm and specializes in hiring managerial and leadership talents across technologies and domains.

We have an opportunity for an Architect with a product engineering background for one of our client, which is an American international electronic commerce company and the worlds' largest online retailer.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and implement features for new and existing products, features, APIs, platforms and frameworks

- Deliver project items on-time / in-spec, communicating clearly with leads, manager and stakeholders

- Contribute to software and database architecture / design

- Contribute to and lead architecture / design conversations and code reviews (yours and other team members’)

- Work with managers and team members to estimate effort and clarify / negotiate / document scope and design

- Contribute to design, architecture, process and development standards

- Effectively mentor more junior team members, helping to maintain appropriate unit test coverage, code documentation, software structure and supportability

- Distil and communicate technical concepts to more junior developers and stakeholders

- Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction and diplomacy

- Identify, evaluate and suggest mitigation strategies for risks during design

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

- 10+ years progressive experience in software development with 4+ years experience in high-scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

- Architecture skills, knowledge of design patterns, and strong fundamentals

- Experience in cloud computing

- Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions

- Experience developing REST web services

- Experience developing high-performance database applications

- Proficiency in AJAX, JavaScript, and Java web programming